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So, I got a lot of free time on my hands these days and I spend a lot of it watching Youtube. I'm going to share with you one of my favorite things on Youtube, Crash Course:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yocja_N5s1I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnQe0xW_JY4
Done by the Green Brothers (Hank and John), Crash Course is a youtube series that sums up in 10-15 minute chunks a wide variety of academic topics. John's end of Crash Course handles the humanities (art, literature, history) while Hank focuses on the hard sciences like chemistry and biology.
They're pretty god damn amazing and you can learn a whole lot from them. Are they comprehensive? No, by their very nature they're summaries of topics. But if you ever wanted an intro to studying something like the Indus Valley civilization, the Great Gatsby, or atomic chemistry, the Green brothers have a fantastic launching point. All of their videos are cited and sourced and can lead you on to a fantastic journey of learning and discovery.
You can also check out Hank's side project, Sci Show, which is about science news and interesting scientific topics you might've wondered about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3bjUu_ONjc
What's some of the cool, edifying stuff you watch on the internet, [chat]?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yocja_N5s1Ihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnQe0xW_JY4Done by the Green Brothers (Hank and John), Crash Course is a youtube series that sums up in 10-15 minute chunks a wide variety of academic topics. John's end of Crash Course handles the humanities (art, literature, history) while Hank focuses on the hard sciences like chemistry and biology.
They're pretty god damn amazing and you can learn a whole lot from them. Are they comprehensive? No, by their very nature they're summaries of topics. But if you ever wanted an intro to studying something like the Indus Valley civilization, the Great Gatsby, or atomic chemistry, the Green brothers have a fantastic launching point. All of their videos are cited and sourced and can lead you on to a fantastic journey of learning and discovery.
You can also check out Hank's side project, Sci Show, which is about science news and interesting scientific topics you might've wondered about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3bjUu_ONjcWhat's some of the cool, edifying stuff you watch on the internet, [chat]?
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TURN IN YOUR BADGE AND YOUR GUN
Yes.
They're the vlogbrothers and run nerdfighters and a bunch of other things.
It is so bad.
So so bad.
Minutephysics:
Veritasium:
Vsauce:
CGPGrey:
this is the kind of shit that makes Youtube my primary source of entertainment
also because this is a better chat
Another comedian off the bucket list
FUCK THE POLICE.
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*pulls out a notepad*
*writes something down*
*puts away the notepad*
it takes only a minute or two to get over the presentation and then it turns out that a lot of them are really goddamned good
like this one about how differentials work may be one of the best teaching tools I've ever seen:
or this Army training movie about fluid couplings:
Tell me, have you seen Turok running around?
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
their stuff is all over the map, some of it is fascinating documentary on global events, some of it is stuff about surfing or skateboarding
i started watching a thing on captive brides in Kyrgyzstan recently but had to stop because it was making me feel physically sick with anger
got a doctor's appointment re: my crohns in the afternoon
and a whole day ahead of internally stressing over when/how I am supposed to next communicate with the girl from yesterday
IT REALLY IS OMG
I am sad that I never watched this show while it was on air. The Beek is probably the most amazing thing that has happened.
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
people who look at this and think the kinect 2 is just a rehash of the kinect 1...
This thing looks magical. Wii Fitness what?
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
http://gawker.com/39-breathtaking-photos-of-north-americas-most-photogen-1458983349
people should read this book, Better Humans? by Michael Hauskeller
it's a fantastic book on the philosophy, ethics, and notions of transhumanism and human augmentation
everyone should read it, even if (especially if!) you don't really know anything about these subjects and have never really thought about them
Join me, roar, and we can rule this universe as father an-
Crap, did another reference.
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IT IS SO GOOD. I TOLD YOU GUYS. SO GOOD.
there are uglier people
but i don't know if any person manages to look so fucking ridiculous and awful in literally every picture of them
Combined with strong cultural preferences favouring one gender over the other, pretty much.
yes
it's created a weird population imbalance, ensured that only the rich have more than one kid (the one child policy is really a huge tax on any more than one child) and kind of fucked up china's social norms around dating and relationships and starting a family
interesting
Besides the alcohol blackout/crackpipe sessions and PR nightmare, is he an effective mayor?
jesus christ no
he's an incompetent boob
I've read a couple of horror stories concerning the enforcement of the policy as well.
The short version: A pro-lifer's nightmare made manifest.
or metaphysical outlines, like various political or economic ideas
Maybe I've just been unknowingly influenced by the Nazi-loving Heidegger but I get frustrated with limited Wikipedia entries (the properties of which are admittedly completely necessary for the sake of functionality) that act like moments in history or politics-as-praxis were discrete Things
The extending of scientific attributes to personalities and causal chains, to me, clouds the meaning or purpose of Thing X's existence in the first place, which I argue is more important than the categorization or attempt to understand in an academic fashion
LET SONTAG BE SONTAG DAMMIT
it emerges from a history and plunges into a future or else it gets the hose again
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
i hate people that half ass things